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This is a list of motor vehicle deaths in Australia by year. It shows the annual number of road fatalities (road deaths or Road toll) per capita per year, per vehicle and per vehicle-km in the year the data was collected. The list includes all road users such as drivers, passengers, pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists.
The risk of dying as a result of a road traffic injury is highest in the African Region (26.6 per 100 000 population), and lowest in the European Region (9.3 per 100 000). [3] Adults aged between 15 and 44 years account for 59 percent of global road traffic deaths. 77 percent of road deaths are males. [6]
Deaths of pedestrians and cyclists are included, but deaths from vehicular accidents not on legal roads (e.g. on farms) are excluded. The New Zealand road toll has exhibited a downward trend since the late 1980s through to 2010, which was attributed to a number of factors: A reduction in drink driving, due to public education and strict policing.
Road incident deaths in Western Australia (22 P) Pages in category "Road incident deaths in Australia" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
This makes motor vehicle collisions the leading cause of death among young adults of 15–29 years of age (360,000 die a year) and the ninth most frequent cause of death for all ages worldwide. [3] In the United States, 40,100 people died and 2.8 million were injured in crashes in 2017, [4] and around 2,000 children under 16 years old die every ...
The most recent figures available from NHTSA show that of 38,824 highway deaths in pandemic year 2020, 3,142 were due to distracted driving — less than 10%. ... 77% said they used their phone ...
The list includes notable accidents with at least 5 deaths, which either occurred in unusual circumstances, or have some other significance. For crashes that killed notable people, refer to the list of people who died in traffic collisions. This list records crashes from the year 2000. For earlier crashes, see list of traffic collisions (before ...
65 years Australian politician car South Road, Noarlunga, South Australia: Head-on collision with 4t truck. Herb Brooks: 1937 2003 66 years American ice hockey coach, most notably of the gold medal-winning 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team: car Interstate 35 in Washington County, Minnesota: Believed to have fallen asleep at the wheel.